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9/10
If you like 'shoot-um-up' westerns, then this will please.
kfo949411 August 2016
Word around Timberline is that the notorious criminal, Captain Frank Avery, is in the area and has everyone spooked. Avery is known for robbing others but also has a nasty side where he never leaves anyone alive. At the bank, the manager is concerned about the amount of money there is on hand so he asks Luke to carry some to the branch in Outpost. This is overheard by the bank clerk who just happens to be feeding information to Avery. Avery has a team of Indians that assist him on his dirty-deeds and now they are going to go after the Stagecoach when it gets to half-way house.

Luke pulls out of Timberline with a full coach. On the stagecoach is a preacher, a gambler, a fancy lad, a former sheriff that was thrown out of office and Davey. A fine mix of people with different views on life. We will learn much about each character and be surprised by revelations that are revealed. By the time Avery and the Indians attack, we just may learn that the characters are not as different as they appear.

Even though there was bullets flying in every direction, this show was well written and well performed. The different set of characters made the story so interesting that the viewer hated to see the approaching ending. Th casting director needs a 'shout-out' as the actor that portrayed each character could not have been better. If you like westerns then this episode will be entertaining to the max.
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6/10
The Guardian Angels
Prismark1031 August 2022
The episode, The Guardian Angels is very much a loose remake of Stagecoach.

A bank manager is worried that his bank might be robbed as he has just too much money.

He asks Luke Perry to transfer some money in his next stagecoach journey. However the bank clerk feeds information to the notorious Captain Frank Avery.

He is a ruthless criminal in cahoots with a group of native Indians. The clerk finds out the hard way just how ruthless Avery can be.

Luke Perry discovers that he has to rely on a motley bunch of passengers to save the him and the money.

A disgraced former sheriff, a gambler, a dodgy preacher.

It is an efficient character study, very much the stock in trade western.

It was hard to take at the end just how melodramatic some of the men fell as they were shot.
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